Re: [Python-3000] Python3 - it's awesome (fwd)

2008-11-19 Thread Nick Coghlan
Michael Bayer wrote: > Seconded. I tried Python 3K for the first time this weekend, spent a > few hours with the 2to3 tool and we have 80% of SQLAlchemy unit tests > passing on 3.0 now. It was far easier than I'd hoped, and the > decisions made in PY3K make perfect sense to me. Its a better lan

Re: [Python-3000] Python3 - it's awesome (fwd)

2008-11-19 Thread Walter Dörwald
Michael Bayer wrote: [...] It will be critical that we get DBAPI implementations going soon, other than pysqlite I haven't perceived any activity in that area. It will be interesting to see if we remain with the maintsays of MySQLdb, psycopg2, cx_oracle, or if new 3.0-era contenders come on

Re: [Python-3000] Python3 - it's awesome (fwd)

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Bayer
Seconded. I tried Python 3K for the first time this weekend, spent a few hours with the 2to3 tool and we have 80% of SQLAlchemy unit tests passing on 3.0 now. It was far easier than I'd hoped, and the decisions made in PY3K make perfect sense to me. Its a better language and I think it

[Python-3000] Python3 - it's awesome (fwd)

2008-11-17 Thread skip
Kudos to the Python 3.0 folks from a poster on comp.lang.python. And it's not even been released yet... Cheers, Skip --- Begin Message --- Hello list, since I've read so much about Python 3 and ran into some trouble which was supposed to be fixed with 3k, I yesterday came around to compile i